meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: We All Have Our Luna Park: Places That Capture Our Imagination Forever

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Three distinct childhood memories—from an art-carnival creator, a food writer, and a horror master—illuminate how the “luna parks” of our childhoods can live in our imaginations for our entire lives. 

Get in touch: [email protected]

Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app

Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Guess what? Discover's accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide. You heard right 99%. If you don't think so, maybe it's time to face facts. You're stuck in the past. Based on the February 2024 Nilsen report, learn more at Discover.com slash credit card.

0:19.7

Dell Technologies is celebrating with anniversary savings on their most popular tech.

0:25.7

For a limited time only, save on select next-gen PCs like the XPS 16 powered by Intel

0:33.0

Core, ultra-processors, and more.

0:36.6

Unleash more possibilities with cutting-edge systems are most advanced

0:41.1

features and great prices. Plus, curate your dream setup with deals on select monitors,

0:48.0

mice, and more must-have electronics and accessories. When you shop online at Dell.com slash deals, you'll have access to state-of-the-art technology

0:58.3

to match your forward-thinking spirit and free shipping on everything.

1:04.0

Anniversary savings await you for a limited time only at Dell.com slash deals.

1:08.9

That's dell.com slash deals. That's Dell.com slash deals.

1:18.0

Lemonada

1:19.0

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

1:26.1

I recently went to see the Luna Luna exhibit here in New York

1:29.7

City at the shed. I was so excited. I'd been wanting to see this art carnival ever since I learned

1:37.0

about it. The brainchild of artist Andre Heller, Luna Luna first opened in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany, as an actual outdoor fairground,

1:48.6

with rides, games, and attractions that had been transformed by contemporary artists like

1:54.6

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaney, Keith Herring, Andre Heller, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, and Kenny Sharp.

2:05.1

The name Luna Luna comes from the term Luna, a term for a small local carnival.

2:11.7

The term comes from the original Luna Park that stood in Coney Island in New York City in 1903.

2:19.4

After the original Luna Luna Fairground closed, the park's treasures were packed up,

2:25.1

and because of a variety of complications were forgotten in storage for 36 years in 44

2:33.5

giant shipping containers in the Texas desert. Very few people remembered that

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.